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Impossible Burgers Now Available in Kuwait

Impossible Foods is a company that develops plant-based substitutes for meat and dairy products. They went viral a couple of years ago when they introduced their burger patty which not only looked like real meat but supposedly also tasted like real meat. Their burger patty was positioned as the future of meat since it used 96% less land, 87% less water and released 89% fewer emissions compared to burgers made with cow meat.

The Impossible burger grew in popularity and became available in a number of high end restaurants like Momofuku Nishi in NY and the Michelin-starred restaurant Public, but it also became available at more casual places like Umami Burger and White Castle. Now the Impossible patty has found its way to Kuwait.

The local burger chain Rock House Sliders launched the Impossible Slider funnily enough on April 1st. I haven’t tried it yet since I just got back to Kuwait, but I’ll be having some tonight since I’m really curious to try it. They have four different sliders made using the Impossible meat and they’re all priced at KD2.750 which is more than double the cost of their real meat sliders. So not cheap. But, if like me you’re interested to try it, RHS is on Talabat, Carriage, and Deliveroo. For more info visit @rockhousesliderskuwait

56 replies on “Impossible Burgers Now Available in Kuwait”

Genetically modified/engineered? LET’S HOPE YOU DON’T DIE TRYING THEN!

BTW, I quite like Jeremy Clarkson…

A “humongous racist” because Clarkson didn’t like Impossible burgers??

Only joking…!

Anyhow, I know he’s a bit of a racist however if I hated a racist, I’d end up hating a pretty large number of people on this planet. Zero tolerance for sure but hating someone will probably not win this battle.

The impossible burger is freakin excellent. I’m vegan and I had it regularly in California last year. (The Beyond Burger from Beyond Meat is also great..)

I was soooo happy about RHS bringing the Impossible Burger to Kuwait, as i thought it would be a fun addition to the Kuwait vegan food scene – buuuuuuut – I went there last week and was amazed to find that NOTHING on their Impossible slider menu is suitable for vegans. The sauces, the toppings – not even the BUN!
So I had to order just a patty. :(((( It was very sad and ridiculous. The staff looked at me like i was crazy and had NO CLUE what plant-based or vegan even is.

Whyyyyyyy would you bring a famously plant-based, vegan burger patty and then not provide plant-based, vegan options on your menu?!?!? It seems so bizarre and illogical. I’ve written to them, as have others of the Kuwait vegan community, and hopefully they will do something about this soon…. There are dozens of vegan cheese, mayo and bun options available in Kuwait already, not to mention the potential for creative vegan toppings that could be designed.

If you accept that there is any value in eating something that, as posted above, uses “96% less land, 87% less water and released 89% fewer emissions compared to burgers made with cow meat” then surely there is also value in making your whole meal as sustainable, eco-conscious and cruelty-free as the patty itself?

The egg and dairy industries are just as detrimental to the planet and the environment as the meat industry, and are responsible for at least as much, if not more, animal deaths, torture, exploitation and unimaginable suffering.

I know, right. It’s really smart of RHS to get in on this ‘clean meats’ movement which is set to be huuuuuge – but they are gonna miss out on a chunk of their potential if they don’t include vegans in their target audience..

Neither of your statements are entiiiiirely true….

1. Vegan is a moral life choice, not a diet. It is the choice to minimise the amount of harm we cause to life on this planet and the planet itself through consciously refusing to exploit, enslave, or in any way consume our fellow members of the animal kingdom.

‘Clean meats’ in general are being developed and invested in primarily by vegan-minded people as the most effective way to reduce consumption of animals by non-vegans.

Patrick Brown, founder and CEO of Impossible Meats, identifies as a vegan. So, while it IS true that the target market of clean meats is not vegans (as this would currently be a very small market), the Impossible Burger IS created for vegans in a roundabout, long-term sense ;p

The target market is non-vegans because even small reductions in consumption of animal products by non-vegans has huge power to make the world a better place for us all, which is the vegan goal :)) and a Win-Win-Win (vegans, non-vegans, and the animals 😉

http://time.com/5247858/impossible-foods-meat-plant-based-agriculture/

2. Nobody cares about vegans, where? In Kuwait? Tell that to the @kuwait_vegan_society and the ever-increasing number of successful fully vegan restaurants, catering services and other businesses already in Kuwait.

There are also several smart non-vegan business owners who make their products and menus adaptable for vegans and train their staff to make sure they can provide for us.

Ubon is a good example: many of their dishes can be ordered veggie – and if you specify VEGAN – even when ordering on Carriage – the staff know what this means and they do it properly.

It doesnt take much to expand your market by respecting vegan needs and providing clear, trustworthy vegan options on your menu or product lists.

One guy posts a well-thought argument with some points to back his claims. You just come out here and spout whatever your thoughts are like they’re facts. As if just saying “don’t kid yourself” makes you right, or a knowledgeable person. It doesn’t.

That’s the power of Google my friend. I can spout whatever I want, and then you google it to fact check me.

1. I’m not your friend.
2. It’s good that you spout whatever you want, it just lets the people around you know that you’re stupid.
3. The onus is on the person making a claim to provide evidence, not on us to research. What world do you live in?

The world of the Internet, where I’m not required to explain myself to you and information is available for everyone for free in a one second, brother.

You don’t deserve my reply, as K-man pointed out, but i’m doing it for the benefit of others who may be less ignorant, and might actually be interested in hearing some facts.

However – you are actually right! Agriculture is indeed destroying the planet: ANIMAL AGRICULTURE to be precise. Only 55% of the world’s agricultural land is used to feed humans directly. Up to 40% of the world’s agricultural land is used to feed LIVESTOCK. >>Only 10% of this actually becomes calories consumed by humans so talk about inefficient.

https://www.vox.com/2014/8/21/6053187/cropland-map-food-fuel-animal-feed

Also, 90+% of all Amazon rainforest destruction is for animal agriculture. The lungs of Planet Earth, being destroyed forever: so that rich people can eat cheap burgers for a few decades… ‘Cheap’…but literally costing us the Earth. What will you say to your grandchildren?> “we let them convince us it was normal and healthy to eat meat, eggs and dairy in every meal, sorry we destroyed the whole planet in a few generations” oops…

We could happily feed all 7 billion humans on plant food using far less land and resources than we do now.

Not to mention water: animal feed mono-crops use over 30% of Earth’s freshwater – or 13 times more water than it would take to grow plant foods OF EQUIVALENT NUTRITIONAL VALUE for humans.

The 1 billion hungry people on this planet are only hungry because their share of land and water is used to grow animal fodder to feed animals which are then fed to the rich, greedy and unconscious (not to mention unhealthy and riddled with obesity, heart disease, diabetes, cancer, osteoporosis, etc) humans living in denial about the very real, undeniable and very direct consequences of what they choose to buy and put in their mouths on a daily basis. Time is running out, and so have your excuses.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/is-the-livestock-industry-destroying-the-planet-11308007/

We currently massacre around 70 billion farmed animals PER YEAR on Earth to feed just 7 billion humans. :((( Does this make ANY sense?! You don’t need to be a genius to see that something is very, very wrong with these numbers.
Check out this live counter to get a visual of the staggering numbers of animals killed by humans per second… This is 100% UNSUSTAINABLE, in the truest sense of the term:

http://thevegancalculator.com/animal-slaughter/

There is nothing natural about this – the biomass of earth would NEVER have this proportion of domesticated animal biomass naturally. Earth is not equipped to sustain 100s of billions (and counting..) of cows, sheep, chickens, pigs, turkeys, etc. Check out this image to see how we have destroyed the Earth’s balance (unnecessarily) in just the last hundred years or so:

https://images.app.goo.gl/kX4fm3rZRYwKE9ET6

And read the whole article here: https://www.greenpeace.org/international/story/17788/how-much-of-earths-biomass-is-affected-by-humans/

Animal agriculture is not normal, natural or necessary. The time for change is NOW. The big illusion is that we have no power to change this. The power lies directly with each one of us: we either choose to support this, or not. Every single thing we buy, eat, drink, wear and otherwise consume is a vote – a vote in favour of suffering, cruelty and the destruction of the planet, or a vote for a better, kinder and more balanced world. Every single vote makes a difference, even if it’s just the choice to order an impossible burger instead of meat. Our choices have power, please let’s use it responsibly _/\_

Phoebe your comment here is the only comment that makes sense. The rest of this thread is absolute trash.
1- Ciggerrete smoking doesn’t cause more pollution than all the cows combined producing methane…and the farms harming the environment.
2-the impossible burger and beyond meat have created alternatives to those who grew up eating meat and still miss it (and are trying to make better lifestyle choices)
3-it’s not just an environmental thing it could be a humanitarian thing (spiritually some people aren’t comfortable taking the lives of others and that’s just fine please don’t judge them)
4- for me it’s a health thing; my face and body looks and feels better. I work non stop and sleep only a few hours a day.
5-no; you will not make a chicken coup and eat your own chickens to stop carbon emissions. We both know that’s a lie.
6- just because your parents beat your ass doesn’t mean you have to repeat the cycle. Your kids can have a better future and it starts now. Stop feeding them Big Macs and stop polluting their bodies. You owe them that much.

Hi guys,

Thanks for posting about our new Impossible Sliders.

Phoebe, we’ve heard the comments from our Vegan fans and are working on something, keep posted.

Technically Impossible doesn’t market itself as a vegan product, it’s a plant based protein, zero cholesterol, no hormones or antibiotics and environmentally very low in greenhouse emissions.

Ps. Keep a look out for 2 more Impossible sliders launching in the upcoming week!

Keep rocking

that’s great! thanks and look forward to being able to order vegan impossible slider from you soon :)))

How can taking an egg from a chicken once it’s laid be harmful to the planet? What if someone has their own chicken coop and just takes the eggs from there and use it for themselves? Is it still harming the planet somehow? Also, whilst we’re on the topic of saving the planet, why can’t we ban cigarettes and tobacco products? Surely that also causes harm to the environment.

Do you get all your eggs from your own chicken coop? Do all you friends and family? Do all the restaurants where you buy your food? Do the companies who make your pastries and chocolates and candies and processed foods? No, didn’t think so. So sorry but your argument is utterly redundant.
Over 95% of the gazillions of eggs produced on this planet are produced by factory farming. (8 billion eggs per month in the USA alone…just to give a rough idea of the scale of this..)

This is where your eggs come from, dear:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-gSoXwFlIE

Can you see how this harms now?

And just in case anyone also thinks taking milk from a cow is not harmful, here is Dairy is Scary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcN7SGGoCNI

Did you know that, just for example, there is literally NOT ONE SINGLE THING in Starbucks Kuwait food selection that is vegan? Every single food item there contains either meat, dairy, or eggs, or all 3. I’m only saying this to illustrate just how pervasive animal products are. And how foods most people don’t even think about are crammed full of animal body parts and secretions. Is this really necessary!? With every snack and meal? Can’t we at least reduce this? Not only Starbucks btw, but most places are the same. You don’t realise til you’re vegan just how much nearly everything contains animal products.

You completely missed my point when I asked if it was harmful for someone to have their own livestock and use the resources for themselves, and you ignored my thought on how the tobacco industry and smoking cigarettes were harmful for the planet, so thank you for proving me right that people like you are radical zealots!

How do we verify that every farm that produce mass egg productions or diary follow the same practices? I find it hard to simply generalize on every company and brand that they follow the same practices as demonstrated in the videos you linked. To rephrase, I don’t refute what you said and I’m not denying what my eyes have witnessed on these videos but my brain tells me its hard to believe that every company/brand apply these practices in their production. Maybe, just maybe, that those videos has been captured at rather less known companies/farms that aren’t ethically taking care of their livestock.
I respect where you’re coming from and I’m just trying to see if there’s a different angle to view what you’re speaking of.

Dear Hamad,
I appreciate your questions. And i empathise with what your eyes and brain (and heart) might feel watching these. It is a sad and shocking truth to have to face. Most of us have no idea where our ‘food’ is really coming from. I also once was totally unaware. I wasn’t raised vegan and I never wanted to be vegan LOL. Educating myself is what changed all that.

I want to be clear that i wouldn’t post something like that without having first done a huge amount of research as well as first-hand witnessing into the situation over several years.. Sadly, those videos depict the ABSOLUTE NORM across the vast majority of animal agriculture industries on the planet. Some are even worse.

The idea of happy farm cows and chickens is a myth. ‘Organic’…’grass fed’.. ‘cage free’…’free range’… these are all just marketing ploys that mean little to nothing for the way the animals are treated.

The sheer volume of animal products we consume globally means that the industry is highly mechanised for maximum efficiency – and is unimaginably brutal. ‘Time is money’ – and these animals are viewed and treated as just products – not as the living, feeling, breathing beings that they are.

If you want to see more information – the documentary ‘Cowspiracy’ is very good and detailed, (and is on Netflix):
http://www.cowspiracy.com/

Or even better for your specific questions, ‘Land of Hope and Glory’ is an expose on the British animal agriculture industry – and is beyond shocking. FYI – The UK has some of the highest and most ‘humane’ standards of farmed animal welfare IN THE WORLD – and when you see here how barbaric the most ‘humane’ practices are…the thought of what happens elsewhere is truly terrifying. You can watch it FREE here:
https://www.landofhopeandglory.org/

Hope this helps. With respect _/\_

PS – I warn that these films are disturbing, but i’ll ask you the question asked by famous vegan activist Gary Yourofsky: “If it’s not good enough for your eyes, why is it good enough for your stomach?”

yeah I assumed it wouldn’t be completely vegan, as thing labeled as vegan in Kuwait is not truly vegan

For anyone wondering where they can buy the patties: I bought two impossible burger patties at Sultan Centre Salmiya

are you sure it wasnt the Beyond Burger?! They definitely sell those at TSC already… but i dont think they sell the Impossible…

I just left two sultan centers, they didn’t have Impossible or beyond burgers. They only had a bunch of other regular vegetarian patties.

I’m sorry, you’re absolutely right. I got them mixed up, not sure why I thought it was the impossible burger. But yes, it was in fact the beyond burger, I got a tray of two patties from sultan centre salmiya. Again, sorry about that.

I’ve bought them from RHS, it tastes real salty though. Maybe because of how RHS prepares it. It’s almost triple the price of a regular slider.

It is also sold in some Burger Kings in the USA, replacing the beef patty to the Impossible Burger patty in the Whopper! Would love to try that

Just tried it as well, I guess it tasted like regular meat, I mean I wouldn’t be able to tell in a blind tasting test. But then again, I wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between ground chicken and ground meat in a blind tasting test anyway.

Don’t take this the wrong way, but this is not the first time someone doesn’t get your fucking jokes…

I fully support the ability to give people of all dietary requirements the ability to eat anything they want but if a white person protests against people eating meat then I’ll definitely go out of my way to eat the bloodiest meat I can find to piss them off. I actually did that several times and they were horrified.

Hey Calvin, impossible meat is extremely expensive to source and is still very much a limited quantity item outside of certain territories.

As it enters mainstream, expect prices to come down, but that will take some time as demand outstrips supply.

Dude.. True vegan will never eat a food that resembles meat. We despise meat and things that look alike. Why pretend u are a vegan if u are thirsty for flesh?

my friends are “true vegans” and they love vegan sausages or vegan patties that tastes like real meat. “True vegans” don’t despise meat, some might not like the taste of meat true, but many choose not to eat meat for reasons other than taste.

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